QUESTIONS FOR COA CHAIR TAN, AND VALTE!

The Commission on Audit’s (COA) clarification of its 2011 national government audit report raised a lot of questions on my mind.

First and foremost, the COA report was specifically labeled for the year 2011. Not for the years 2010 and 2011, or from the years 2007 to 2011. Just for 2011, alone.

So WHAT WAS THE BASIS for including statistics and amounts from previous years? Is there ANY LAW or ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE which justifies, or requires this move? If there is any, please cite and explain in detail.

If there is none, why did  COA do it in the first place?.

COA Chairperson Gracia Pulido-Tan said the unliquidated cash advances reported in Table II.7-A of the COA report was “as of” Dec. 31, 2011, indicating that this was an accumulation from prior years.

Questions: Why were unliquidated cash advances from prior years, If indeed there was any, included?   How much was the unliquidated cash advances of the Aquino Administration for 2011 alone?

Was this specified and detailed in the 2011 report?  If yes, where? If no, why not?  

What about for 2010?  Remember, people, Pnoy assumed power on the second half of 2010. Was  it cited and detailed in the 2010 COA report?

Tan cited audits of the province of Maguindanao and selected municipalities in it and Department of Public Works and Highways-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao  which revealed billions of pesos in pecuniary loss for the years 2007 to 2009.

Questions: Why wasn’t a separate report made for this? Before this was cited in the 2011 report, was COA 100 percent sure that these supposed losses remaind questionable or unexplained and unjustified

Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said the losses may not have resulted from graft.

Graft or not, the fact remains that the money WAS NOT HANDLED PROPERLY, to say the least. Whether or not it’s due to THEFT, INCOMPETENCE or whatever, P101 billion of our taxes was lost.

And it was the GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY to safeguard it.

So the question now is what is the Aquino Government doing for unliquidated cash advances under its administration? Is id doing naything at all?

Valte said the Aquino administration was committed to fighting graft and corruption, and had not been complacent in this fight.

Really? Then why did Pnoy himself bail out former Isabela Gov. Grace Padaca, who was facing graft charges, and CATEGORICALLY AND PUBLICLY DECLARE he doesn’t think she’s guilty?

Why couldn’t Pnoy  wait for the court to decide on Padaca’s case? 30